Crow-Feather
32 Cal.
My wife needed to shoot a 32 rifle because of a spine problem where she could have no recoil. I purchased a Traditions Crockett 32. After a few trips to the range, accuracy became terrible. I dismantled the rifle and found so many problems that a "simple fix wasn't going to correct them. The ramrod spring screw was higher than the barrel channel and supporting the barrel. The main spring was rubbing against the barrel and causing misfires. The snail was rubbing the top of the lock and the lock was rubbing the side of the barrel. The tang channel was too deep and they put a screw in the barrel channel to raise the tang to it's proper level. After 3-4 calls, they finally accepted the rifle for repair after I sent them pictures. I received the rifle back from repair. All they had done was ground down the main spring so that it wouldn't rub the barrel. Two months later, after a bunch of calls, to a supervisor, the rifle was returned for another rifle.
The first thing I noticed with the new rifle was the ramrod spring screw sitting above the barrel channel. The barrel snail was sitting on the lock and the edge of the lock was gouging a notch into the snail. The trigger group was not inlet into the stock. The rear was not screwed in where it was supposed to be and sat past the inlet. The rear of the trigger guard was shimmed to be higher to clear the trigger bar and the top of the brass trigger guard was filed down to be even with the stock. As the tang screw was at an angle when it was screwed into the misaligned trigger group, the shots would wander after a few shots. (benched, 40 yards) The barrel could not be set into the stock until the lock was removed due to the lock being set too deep.. If the barrel was removed for cleaning, the rifle had to be sighted in again.
I filed, inlet, and epoxied the ramrod spring into place. My last 5 shots put three into the 10 and two into the 9 rings. A traditions is accurate, just don't expect a finished rifle to be "in the white".
The first thing I noticed with the new rifle was the ramrod spring screw sitting above the barrel channel. The barrel snail was sitting on the lock and the edge of the lock was gouging a notch into the snail. The trigger group was not inlet into the stock. The rear was not screwed in where it was supposed to be and sat past the inlet. The rear of the trigger guard was shimmed to be higher to clear the trigger bar and the top of the brass trigger guard was filed down to be even with the stock. As the tang screw was at an angle when it was screwed into the misaligned trigger group, the shots would wander after a few shots. (benched, 40 yards) The barrel could not be set into the stock until the lock was removed due to the lock being set too deep.. If the barrel was removed for cleaning, the rifle had to be sighted in again.
I filed, inlet, and epoxied the ramrod spring into place. My last 5 shots put three into the 10 and two into the 9 rings. A traditions is accurate, just don't expect a finished rifle to be "in the white".
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